News updates, tips on using Perch and running a great web design business
Looking for quick tips that will help you develop Perch sites more efficiently? News and updates about Perch, web design inspiration? You have found the right place! The Blog is curated by Drew and Rachel.
When handing over a site to a client, a nice way to remind them of how to use their new CMS is to provide them with a little video walking them through the system. Here at Perch we create a lot of video using inexpensive tools. In this post I’ll show you how we do it.
For elements common to many pages you could use PHP includes with Perch, however Perch has the Perch Layouts functionality, which gives you some extra features. Find out more in this tip.
We love to hear how much People Love Perch. This interview is with Martin Underhill from tempertemper.
Material Design Lite lets you add a Material Design look and feel to your websites. Perch is ideally suited to creating templates for use with this framework. I take a look and share some example templates.
Perch Runway brings the powerful Collections feature to Perch, and a new template tag perch:related. Here’s how I used it to add testimonials to the Perch website.
The control panel is the place where content editors have to come to edit and update content on their site. They have to use the system day after day, long after the developer has moved on to other projects. At Perch we really value their time, and try and make sure the control panel works to help them keep the content on the site as fresh as the day it was launched.
One important feature of the new Perch Shop is the ability to sell digital products and services. As a business reliant on selling digital products ourselves, we’re all too aware of the need to manage this well, and how it is so often neglected in ecommerce solutions.
Since our launch of Perch Runway last year many long-time Perch customers have moved to Perch Runway for their new site builds. If you know Perch there are surprisingly few differences when developing straightforward sites, and you can take advantage of the more advanced features in Perch Runway as you need them.
The brand new Perch Shop Add-on is a full-featured e-commerce solution for Perch and Perch Runway. Use Perch Shop with Perch Runway and you have a powerful and flexible e-commerce solution for the biggest of online stores. Coupled with Perch it enables simple stores to be created – perfect for anyone wanting to sell a few items from their website.
Perch has always had structured content at the core, and both versions of the product enable intelligent, structured content and the use of content models. While standard Perch ties that content to pages, the Collections feature in Perch Runway enables flexible structured content. I take a look at how Perch Runway enables intelligent use of content in your projects.